Leandro Faggin
Leandro Faggin
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Personal information |
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Born |
(1933-07-18)18 July 1933 Padua, Italy |
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Died |
6 December 1970(1970-12-06) (aged 37) Padua, Italy |
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Team information |
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Discipline |
Track |
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Role |
Rider |
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Rider type |
Sprinter |
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Medal record
Competitor for Italy |
Track cycling |
Olympic Games |
Gold | Melbourne 1956 | 1000m time trial |
Gold | Melbourne 1956 | Team pursuit |
World Championships |
Gold | 1963 Rocourt | Individual pursuit |
Gold | 1965 S. Sebastian | Individual pursuit |
Gold | 1966 Frankfurt | Individual pursuit |
Silver | 1958 Paris | Individual pursuit |
Silver | 1962 Milan | Individual pursuit |
Silver | 1964 Paris | Individual pursuit |
Bronze | 1961 Zürich | Individual pursuit |
Bronze | 1967 Amsterdam | Individual pursuit |
Bronze | 1968 Rome | Individual pursuit |
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Leandro Faggin (18 July 1933 – 6 December 1970) was an Italian racing cyclist, Olympic champion and world champion in track cycling.
Biography
He won a gold medal in the 1000 m time trial at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.[1] He was also a member of the Italian team that won a gold medal in team pursuit at the 1956 Olympics.[2]
He is three times gold winner in individual pursuit in the UCI Track World Championships, from 1963, 1965 and 1966, and has also three silver medals and three bronze medals.
Death
Faggin died of cancer aged just 37 years in 1970. In the 2000s, his name was included into a list of cases under investigation for possible use of doping in cycling.[3]
See also
References
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- 1896 – 1904
- 1908: Great Britain (Jones, Kingsbury, Meredith, Payne)
- 1912
- 1920: Italy (Carli, Ferrario, Giorgetti, Magnani)
- 1924: Italy (De Martino, Dinale, Menegazzi, Zucchetti)
- 1928: Italy (Facciani, Gaioni, Lusiani, Tasselli)
- 1932: Italy (Cimatti, Pedretti, Ghilardi, Borsari)
- 1936: France (Charpentier, Goujon, Lapébie, Le Nizerhy)
- 1948: France (Adam, Blusson, Coste, Decanali)
- 1952: Italy (Campana, De Rossi, Messina, Morettini)
- 1956: Italy (Domenicali, Faggin, Gandini, Gasparella)
- 1960: Italy (Arienti, Testa, Vallotto, Vigna)
- 1964: Germany (Claesges, Henrichs, Link, Streng)
- 1968: Denmark (Frey, Asmussen, Lyngemark, Olsen)
- 1972: West Germany (Schumacher, Colombo, Haritz, Hempel)
- 1976: West Germany (Vonhof, Braun, Lutz, Schumacher)
- 1980: Soviet Union (Manakov, Movchan, Osokin, Petrakov)
- 1984: Australia (Grenda, Nichols, Turtur, Woods)
- 1988: Soviet Union (Ekimov, Kasputis, Nelyubin, Umaras)
- 1992: Germany (Steinweg, Walzer, Fulst, Glöckner, Lehmann)
- 1996: France (Capelle, Ermenault, Monin, Moreau)
- 2000: Germany (Fulst, Bartko, Becke, Lehmann, Pollack)
- 2004: Australia (Brown, Lancaster, McGee, Roberts)
- 2008: Great Britain (Clancy, Manning, Thomas, Wiggins)
- 2012: Great Britain (Clancy, Thomas, Burke, Kennaugh)
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